"American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land" By Monica Hesse Liveright. 255 pp. $26.95 The fires were big news, for a while. Accomack County, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, spent late 2012 and early 2013 under siege, enduring 86 arsons in five months' time, most of them set in abandoned buildings. No one died. For a while, investigators wondered if they had a criminal mastermind on their hands, but when the [...]
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